State ready to start road work on 46 West, East

Weather permitting, the Indiana Department of Transportation plans to restrict traffic on State Road 46 on Thursday, April 5 to a single lane at the bridge over the north fork of Salt Creek. That’s the bridge near the traffic light at CVS.

Temporary signals were to be placed Monday at either end of the bridge to allow traffic to travel over the bridge one direction at a time.

Repairs will be done to three bridges or culverts on State Road 46 this year, costing the state a total of $1,153,832. Crews from Ragle Inc. will install a latex-modified concrete overlay to protect the Salt Creek bridge and renew its driving surface.

INDOT also will close the westbound shoulder of State Road 46 at Gnaw Bone, where a metal arched pipe culvert near Brown Hill Road will be repaired and the pavement patched. Later, the eastbound shoulder, as well as Old State Road 46, will close for repairs.

Two-way traffic will be maintained at the Gnaw Bone work site on 46.

After Memorial Day, crews will remove and replace a slab-top bridge next to State Road 46 at Bond Cemetery Road/Shipley Hollow Road. A 14- by 7-foot, 5-foot-wide box culvert will be installed at the site. Temporary signals will allow traffic to flow one direction at a time.

Kids on Wheels competing for park funding

Kids on Wheels, the group working to create a teen park in Nashville, is seeking votes to help them get $20,000.

The Meet Me at the Park contest runs from April 1 to 30 online. The winning town will get $20,000 to put toward a park, writes Colleen Smith, one of the parents behind Kids on Wheels.

Voters must be 18 or older, and they can vote every day. “Last year’s (winning) town had 3,000 votes. That’s only 100 people voting every day. Please be one of our 100,” Smith wrote.

The address to visit to cast a vote is NRPA. org/disneymeetme atthepark. Choose “Nashville, Indiana.”

Meet Me at the Park is a collaboration between the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) and The Walt Disney Company to bring the magic of parks and recreation to children and families across the United States.